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...such moments Hasek's good soldier seems like the martyr in his drunken chaplain's painting...
PEOPLE MAY FIND it surprising to hear Father Louis Gigante say that there is no Mafia. Gigante, chaplain of the Italian American Civil Rights League, New York City councilman, and a fellow at the Institute of Politics this week, will explain this view at several places around Harvard...
...Concordia board also replaced all four department heads at the seminary, three of them with doctrinaire conservatives loyal to Preus. As acting president and new head of the exegetical (i.e., Bible) department, the board appointed the Rev. Martin H. Scharlemann, 63, an unflappable former military chaplain who is a retired brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. Scharlemann has solid academic credentials (two earned doctorates). But his appointment outraged the faculty, who consider him a turncoat: many of the professors had defended him when he was under attack as being too liberal during the 1950s...
McCarthy helped end the career of the Wisconsin Senator. Fourteen years later, St. Clair represented Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin during his trial in Boston for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion. More recently, he represented the Boston school committee in its lengthy attempt to avoid desegregation of the city's public schools. Explains St. Clair: "My politics have nothing to do with my professional representation...
...campaign under the eye-catching slogan THE NEW YORK PRIEST. GOD KNOWS WHAT HE DOES FOR A LIVING. Sample headline: FATHER JOHN O'LEARY. IF HE'S NOT IN CHURCH, HE'S PROBABLY IN JAIL. As it turns out, O'Leary is a chaplain at the Manhattan House of Detention, the infamous Tombs. Other ads show a black priest who runs a community center in Harlem, and a monsignor in Peekskill, N.Y., whose most important job, during a twelve-hour working day, "is to celebrate the Mass...